This week in PLoS Medicine: Mapping Malaria in Kenya; Malaria Parasites and Paediatric fever estimates; Funding for maternal and child health and more

This week four articles were published in PLoS Medicine, including two articles on malaria in our research section. Philip Bejon and colleagues document the clustering of malaria episodes and malarial parasite infection. These patterns may enable future prediction of hotspots of malaria infection and targeting of treatment or preventive interventions. Peter Gething and colleagues compute the number of fevers likely to present to public health facilities in Africa and the estimated number of these fevers likely to be infected with Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasites, contributing to ongoing scientific and policy debates about optimum clinical and financial strategies for the introduction of new diagnostics.

Also on the subject of maternal and child health, a Policy Forum by Marco Schäferhoff and colleagues critiques funding estimates for the maternal and child health Millennium Development Goals, and make recommendations for improving the tracking of financing flows and estimating the costs of scaling up interventions for mothers and children.

One Response to This week in PLoS Medicine: Mapping Malaria in Kenya; Malaria Parasites and Paediatric fever estimates; Funding for maternal and child health and more

I have noticed that government run Malaria programs in some countries like India shun away from implementing a desirable research agenda as far as malaria and public health are concerned. It is not only sad but painfully appalling that Malaria eradication has not worked thus far in these countries while millions are being spend sometimes hurriedly, unplanned, and yes unplanned.

We need to take Malaria seriously as a public health risk and prepare to combat based on actual research and accountability in these countries.
Any suggestions forwraded are looked over and dismissed since Government funding is too tight fisted in the hands of people who are keeping the jobs rather than doing their jobs.